Category: Money and Business

Salary cuts, $1,000 fee per student, 35 percent tuition increase, and shorter semester hours are just some of the drastic measures on the table as part of the state’s latest budget cut efforts.
University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis presented a proposal Wednesday morning to the Georgia General Assembly. It is part of the [...]

 VSU’s Career Services hosted its Fall Career Expo Wednesday in the University Center’s Magnolia room, with a variety of organizations and graduate schools attended looking for prospective students and alumni.
 According to Winifred Collins, Director of Career Services, approximately 200 students and alumni attended the event.
 AVON, Frito Lay, GEICO, Hertz, Lowe’s, Sherwin-Williams, South Georgia Medical, Turner [...]

Over the past weeks, VSU Parking and Transportation has been cracking down on illegally parked cars in marked disabled spaces on campus. This is due to an increase in the number of people parking in those designated spaces without proper credentials.

Danielle Everson
Asst. Managing Editor
dveverson@valdosta.edu
Students in Free Enterprise have spent their entire allocated budget on helping the community and VSU.
Their annual report includes amounts of money that was collected from different sources. The allocated total from student activities was $12,000 with no rollover.
According to Fletcher Ogletree, president of SIFE, they always start out with a balance [...]

Thomas Dale
Contributing Writer
tadale@valdosta.edu
$276.00
Delta Meade hurriedly steps through the hospital parking lot, cell phone cradled between her blue-scrub-covered shoulders and her defiantly curly hair.  As she ruffles through her purse to find her keys, frustration invades her face.  She lets the phone drop into her hand, slamming it shut in one smooth motion.  “$276 this week,” [...]

Adeshina Lawal
Staff Writer
ailawal@valdosta.edu
With yesterday being National Income Tax day, many Americans, along with many Valdosta residents, are at unrest.
Gathering in the afternoon off N. Ashley St., people came  from all over Valdosta to protest what they believe to be unfair taxation, using the 1773 Boston Tea Party as precedence.
The people see a lot of government [...]

Karah-Leigh Hancock
Josh Colwell
The Spectator
kphancoc@valdosta.edu
jocolwell@valdosta.edu
The majority of VSU students will be digging a little deeper in their pockets beginning next semester. Thanks to the change in the “Fixed for Four” policy, VSU will be raising the tuition fee anywhere from five to 20 percent beginning in the Fall 2009 semester.
Students who began their career at VSU [...]

Dana Littmann
Features Editor
dmlittmann@valdosta.edu
I’m a handicapped student, and on Monday I was given a $110 ticket for “blocking” a disabled parking spot.
As you can probably understand, I was pretty upset when I got this ticket. When I went to the Parking and Transportation Department, the employee I spoke with told me that the department has started [...]

Danielle Everson
Asst. Managing Editor
dververson@valdosta.edu
Students in Free Enterprise continue their community service after winning regional as they prepare to help raise money for the upcoming Relay for Life at VSU.
SIFE recently competed in Atlanta at the Regional SIFE Competition March 30 where they won their 15th consecutive award as their six member team gave a presentation [...]

Danielle Everson
Assistant Managing Editor
dveverson@valdosta.edu
Campus Recreation’s budget is low due to student payroll playing a big factor in where the money is being spent.
Campus Recreation’s budget reports that only $34,923.30 is remaining of the original $140,000 that was allocated last spring semester by the Student Allocation Fee Committee.
A rollover amount of $60,649 added to the allocated [...]

Dana Littmann
Features Editor
dmlittmann@valdosta.edu
Valdosta may be able to escape the job deficit that is hitting much of the country.
According to Brad Lofton, the Executive Director of Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority, Valdosta was recently ranked the only recession-proof community in the country by Mark Hovind at Jobsbate.com.
While some of Valdosta’s businesses have closed, these closures are being [...]